Disney's Robin Hood (1973)


one can watch the whole film on youtube, were one so inclined

We're watching Disney's Robin Hood, and I'd forgotten how much I love it. The team that made Jungle Book, The Aristocats and The Rescuers was also responsible for this lovely film. The message (like every incarnation of the Robin Hood story) is heartwarmingly pro-communist, anti-government and anarchistic. The magic of this movie lies in the combination of friendly anthropomorphic animals, catchy songs, slapstick comedy and an openly anarchro-socialist viewpoint (the result of which is a generation of full of people just like me: knee-jerk liberals with a healthy distrust of power and deep-seeded sense of self-righteous, classist hatred of the bourgeoise).

Robin Hood tells kids that the wealthy have become so solely through ill-gotten gains at the expense of the poorest among us. That just makes me smile. The only downside to that message is that fair taxes are, as a point of fact, a benefit to all under a capitalist system.

As an added benefit, novelty country god Roger Miller narrated this film, as well as wrote and sang three of the songs. "A pox on the phony king of England!"
- posted by Mason @ 8:46 PM